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Siderite

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Siderite

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Description
Locality: 
La Taillat Mine, La Chevrette, St Pierre-d'Allevard, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Cabinet (10-18 cm)
Size: 
16.5 × 8 × 5.5 cm
Weight: 
520.00gr
Description

This is a fantastic and very hard to get specimen of Siderite from a historic mine in France.

Very sharp and lustrous, pale brown, translucent siderite crystals on both sides with minor quartz and calcite crystals on matrix.

Ex Dr. HJ Wilke collection, ex Wolfgang Wendel collection.

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Siderite

Formula: 
FeCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.5 - 4.5
Streak: 
White